2.0.0

KickTalk v2.0.0 Release Notes

🚀 Major New Features

• 🎉 Support Events System: Complete overhaul of event handling with comprehensive subscription, donation, and gift tracking - bringing the full Kick experience directly into your chat

• 📺 Streamlink Integration: External player integration with quality selection, path configuration, and availability checking for enhanced viewing

• 🎭 Enhanced Emote Support: Subscriber emotes now show in every chatrrom, Unified emote logic with shared hooks for better performance and consistency across all chatrooms

• ⚙️ Granular Chat Controls: Per-event visibility toggles allowing users to customize exactly which events they want to see

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed UI issue with arrow direction in ReplyMessage component
• Prevented duplicate subscription events with unified deduplication
• Improved Kick gift formatting and tracking
• Enhanced chat mode detection for better event handling
• Fixed Streamlink terminal window visibility on Windows
• Improved Streamlink command verification and PATH detection

🔧 Technical Improvements

• Added WebSocket dependency and event collection scripts for better data analysis
• Replaced custom SVG assets with Phosphor React icon library for consistency
• Implemented quality fallback system for Streamlink launches
• Enhanced error handling and user feedback systems
• Improved reactive UI updates for settings changes

📊 Issues Resolved

Upstream Repository (KickTalkOrg/KickTalk) - CLOSED ✅

• #56 Kick added KICKs (tips) into the chat
• #54 feat: Add Streamlink integration for external stream playback

Origin Repository (BP602/KickTalk) - CLOSED ✅

• #36 Replace SVG assets with Phosphor React icon library
• #25 feat: Add Streamlink integration for external stream playback
• #14 @ mention notifications not working - missing username detection logic
• #12 Reply messages show '@' instead of username during optimistic rendering

Issues Likely Addressed (Missing Issue References in Commits)

Commits that should have referenced these issues:

Upstream Issues:

• #51 "Display subscription/gift events" → Support event commits should reference this
• #53 "Emotes for subscribers" → SevenTV commits 6ea09c4, 5152db6 should reference this
• #52 "Live status bugs" → Live status commits 969ce05, 694c9eb should reference this

Origin Issues:

• #32 "StreamerIsLive event support" → Commit 2544c6a should reference this
• #31 "StopStreamBroadcast event support" → Commit 2544c6a should reference this

💡 Suggested Commit Message Improvements

For future releases, consider these commit message formats:

feat(support-events): handle support event messages (fixes #51)
feat(sevenTV): extract useAllStvEmotes hook for shared logic (fixes #53)
fix(live-status): keep live badge in sync via WS-only + reconnect (fixes #52)
feat(kick-ws): handle StreamerIsLive/StopStreamBroadcast events (fixes #32, #31)

🔀 Pull Requests Merged

Major Features

• #35 Feature/streamlink integration (+217/-643 lines)

  • Native notifications with Electron dialogs
  • Streamlink availability checks and install guidance
  • Improved UX with better error handling and messaging

• #34 feat: add support event message toggle (+9552/-255 lines)

  • Style subscription, donation, and reward events with custom backgrounds
  • User-configurable visibility toggles for support events
  • Complete Kick support event handling infrastructure

• #26 feat: add Streamlink integration with comprehensive settings UI (+771/-31 lines)

  • External Players Settings section with quality selection
  • Context menu integration for StreamerInfo and ChatroomTab
  • Cross-platform Streamlink detection and custom player support

Chat & UI Improvements

• #23 feat: improve @mention detection accuracy and performance (+158/-43 lines)

  • Strict username-specific mention regex with word boundaries
  • Username variation support (hyphens/underscores interchangeable)
  • Regex memoization for performance optimization
  • Fixes: #14

• #21 fix: keep chatroom tabs in sync with live status (+234/-1 lines)

  • Periodic Kick channel info polling for livestream status
  • Avoids cached responses for real-time accuracy
  • Fixes: KickTalkOrg/KickTalk#52

Technical Infrastructure

• #20 Delay renderer telemetry until preload initialization (+80/-1 lines)

  • Preload readiness signaling with global flag and events
  • Dynamic telemetry import after preload completion

• #19 chore: update electron tooling (+6143/-18417 lines)

  • Updated electron-related packages to latest versions
  • Removed deprecated electron-builder options

• #17 ci(windows): prebuild native deps + debug logs (+8/-1 lines)

  • Windows packaging reliability improvements with pnpm
  • Native dependency prebuilding and enhanced debugging

• #16 chore(pnpm): selective hoisting for Electron + builder excludes (+18/-1 lines)

  • Selective pnpm hoisting for Electron packages
  • Excluded non-app directories from packaging for smaller artifacts

• #15 chore: trim bundle and harden preload (+29/-99 lines)

  • Removed pnpm store from packaging to reduce bundle size
  • Hardened preload setup with fallback store guarantee

Upstream PRs

• KickTalkOrg/KickTalk#55 feat: add Streamlink integration (CLOSED - merged into origin)

📋 Complete Changelog

🎉 Support Events & Chat Features

• 1193760 feat: handle support event messages
• 55ba9d0 feat: enhance support events with subscription/donation handling and telemetry
• 280a740 Enhance support event messages with typed icons and styling
• a3fe477 feat: display stream status events in chat as support messages
• d1d4e0e Replace custom SVG icons with Phosphor Icons in SupportEventMessage
• 1be41ed feat(kick-ws): map celebration→subscription, catch-all unknowns, dedupe support
• 7e8c3f5 feat: enhance chat mode detection and add comprehensive support event handling
• b144750 feat: track new Kick gifts
• 6e6d7ec feat: improve kick gift formatting
• 1f24e31 feat: rely solely on per-event chat visibility toggles
• 5dc45a9 fix(chat): prevent duplicate subscription events with unified deduplication

📺 Streamlink Integration

• 7916e57 feat: add Streamlink integration with comprehensive settings UI
• e3a55d0 fix(streamlink): implement quality fallback and improve launch reliability
• cdcb272 feat(streamlink): availability gating, path display, and reactive UI
• f08e44d feat: enhance streamlink integration with availability checks and install guidance
• e40d1c0 fix(streamlink): properly verify command existence in PATH
• 496e789 fix(streamlink): hide terminal window on Windows launch

🎭 SevenTV & Emotes

• 6ea09c4 refactor: extract useAllStvEmotes hook for shared SevenTV emote logic
• 5152db6 Fix: populate 7tv emotes for all chatrooms, show kick subscriber emotes in all chatrooms

💬 Chat Improvements

• 7096972 feat: improve @mention detection accuracy and performance
• cfde2da fix: centralize mention regex and handle punctuation in notifications
• 94ce458 fix(ui): replace left arrow with right arrow in ReplyMessage component

🔴 Live Status & WebSocket

• 2544c6a fix(kick-ws): handle StreamerIsLive/StopStreamBroadcast from channel.* and private-livestream.*
• 969ce05 fix(navbar): keep live badge in sync via WS-only + reconnect reconcile
• 694c9eb fix: refresh live status for chatroom tabs
• 9b8511c feat: add telemetry for live status polling

🎨 UI & Icons

• 7350c69 feat: replace SVG assets with Phosphor React icon library

📊 Telemetry & Monitoring

• fa86074 fix(telemetry): expose preload readiness bridge and sync settings
• 89be798 chore(telemetry): dramatically reduce message.parser_consolidated volume
• b5cdfd7 fix(telemetry): avoid invalid 'typeof import' usage
• 3d34103 feat(telemetry): add masked health IPC and preload bridge
• 222f8dd fix(telemetry): replace auto-instrumentations with manual HTTP instrumentation

🔧 Technical Infrastructure

• 4a1fba4 feat: add ws dependency and event collection scripts
• fe15380 chore: update electron tooling
• c12c81c ci(windows): prebuild native deps with pnpm and enable electron-builder debug
• bb55bb6 chore(pnpm): selective hoisting for Electron
• 2b1d8d3 chore: trim bundle and harden preload
• b09ad8b Remove puppeteer-real-browser dependency

📖 Documentation & CI

• 9239f11 docs: standardize release notes with template structure
• 63c7839 Update README.md, add deepwiki badge
• 8b84e69 Docs: Refactor and streamline repository guidelines
• 49d9ff6 docs: add AGENTS.md contributor guide
• 465b496 ci(release): Populate release body from markdown file
• 1642a02 ci: Run workflow on pull requests

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